the future of news

This is kinda neat: a projection of current trends in news toward the future. You'll need flash, audio and about ten minutes of free time.

getopt manpage

if the option string is four chars long, and it's tuesday, and raining, and you're on a POSIX system, but the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable isn't set, and your name begins with a vowel, then getopt will set some random variables, return the last number you thought of, and carry the one.

Ok, it's not quite that bad, but it's close.